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...gilt-seekers: Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., (D-Mass) candidate for re-election in the 11th Congressional District and Sen. Michael J. Lopresti Jr., candidate for re-election in the SuBolk and Middles Senate District. These two are taking advantage of the second consonant in Math Ar. Both have at best skimmed the reading so far. Tip is spending very little time campaigning in the district, because, as one aide puts it bluntly. "He doesn't need to," LoPresti has indicated his concern about Socialist opponent William Shakalis by going on a junket to the Orient. The combined possibility...
Today, 20 congressional hearings and $83 million later, the station is closed, too dangerous to use. Parts of the roof have caved in. Leaking water has spread sepia stains on the gilt-edged ceilings and knocked loose hefty chunks of plaster. Pipes have burst, leaving muddy lakes. Toadstools grow from urinals and floors. Beneath 36 granite Roman soldiers encircling the balcony of the musty waiting room, rats and roaches prowl...
...best, our resources are pretty good now." Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence agree that, as one puts it, "We've had to play catch-up." The quality of information has greatly improved over the past few months. Yet even when the information is gilt-edged, Washington is not always eager to listen if the details do not mesh with policy. One U.S. expert praises the intelligence collected by the U.S. Army command (dubbed SOUTHCOM) headquartered in Panama, but he believes its accurate-and pessimistic-assessments of the situation in El Salvador go largely unheeded. Says...
...believes this is due both to initiatives by President Bok and to increased support from departments for study abroad programs. "Departments are clearly more receptive to giving credit to undergraduates studying in other countries. In addition, students are finding the Ventures Abroad project that Bok started very helpful." Gilt says...
Safe-deposit box No. 4411 at Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis was supposed to hold stock certificates as gilt-edged collateral for ten of the largest margin accounts at Stix & Co., a prestigious St. Louis brokerage house. While investigators from the Securities and Exchange Commission looked on, a bank official and an officer of Stix turned matching keys in time-honored fashion. But when the box was removed, it contained a pouch filled with back issues of the Wall Street Journal. Securities worth some $36 million were missing...